Database Administrator II

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

Join our Data Services team! We are responsible for provisioning, managing and supporting the customer facing DB infrastructure, ensuring its efficient functioning and high availability across Databases, Cloud Services, platforms and applications. This role involves analyzing, designing, implementing, and operating mission-critical database services using Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, and championing new Database platforms.

Requirements

Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Have 5+ years of Oracle experience, with expertise in supporting highly available transactional systems (4-9s)
Have advanced knowledge of Oracle troubleshooting and performance tuning for PL/SQL and the database in a Cloud
Have 5 years of experience as Oracle DBA with routine automation experience
Have 5 years of outstanding verbal and written communication skills, including experience working with culturally diverse and geographically distributed teams
Be able to communicate effectively with Program Management, InfoSec, Engineering, QA, and Operations personnel
Have deep knowledge of Cloud DevOps principles
Be required to undergo or possess and maintain a successfully adjudicated USG Tier 3 background investigation

Responsibilities

Supporting day-to-day operations with large-scale, highly available, reliable, high-performing transactional (OLTP) databases hosted in geo-distributed cloud-based datacenters
Providing Oracle expertise with performing database operations with minimum (or zero) downtime
Being a liaison for database-related problems between operations, architecture, development, and QA groups
Automating routine database operations using scripting or cloud automation tools
Mentoring junior DBAs
Participating in architecture and incident review boards

Benefits

opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things
benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future
benefits surrounding all aspects of your life: Your health, Your finances, Your family, Your time at work, Your time pursuing other endeavors
industry-leading benefits including healthcare
401K savings plan
company holidays
vacation (in the form of PTO)
sick time
family friendly benefits including parental leave
employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness
annual bonus or incentives
equity awards
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)